Hong Kong Journalists Association

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Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests are among the best covered in history. The city is saturated with print, broadcast, and social media, traveling across some of the best networks on earth. Its citizens are among the most connected in the world. And for all the media's flaws, consumers expect them to deliver.

EDITOR'S NOTE: As pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong intensify ahead of China's National Day on Wednesday, some reporters have been caught in the melee. But for Hong Kong's journalists, there is more at stake than run-ins with the riot police.

Hong Kong, August 9, 2013--The
government's anti-corruption agency has demanded two news outlets turn over notes
and other material related to interviews they conducted with an oil executive
who is under investigation. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the
Independent Commission Against Corruption to withdraw its requests.

In "Dark
Clouds on the Horizon," the Hong Kong Journalists Association's latest
annual report, the group warns that China is tightening its grip over Hong Kong
media. The findings come at a time when attacks
on a pro-democracy media group, Next Media, have raised fears of aggression
against news outlets known for being critical of China.

As a
former resident of the Special Administrative Region, the classification given Hong
Kong when it reverted to China's control in 1997, I've always watched the media
there with the appreciative eye of a news consumer. The concept of "One Country,
Two Systems," put forward to explain how the former British colony's capitalist
economy and post-colonial administration were going to mesh with China's
authoritarian government, was always suspect. A major concern was that China
would eventually have to crack down on Hong Kong's free-wheeling media.